Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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Best Quotes about Humor

1.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

2.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

3.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

5.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

6.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

7.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

8.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

9.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

10.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

11.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

13.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

14.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

15.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

16.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

17.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

18.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

19.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

20.

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

22.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

24.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

25.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

26.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

28.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

29.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

30.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

32.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

34.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

35.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

36.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

37.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

38.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

39.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

40.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

41.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

42.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

43.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

44.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

45.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

46.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

47.

Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

48.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

49.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

50.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber